NIPS 2016 Workshop on Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems

[Marc Lanctot]

Dear all,

We are organizing a workshop on Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems on the 10 of December 2016, Barcelona, Spain

https://sites.google.com/site/malicnips2016

Submission deadline: 21 October 2016

Organizers: Thore Graepel, Marc Lanctot, Joel Leibo, Guy Lever, Janusz Marecki, Frans Oliehoek, Karl Tuyls

Multi-agent learning is of crucial importance to the future of computational intelligence and pose difficult and fascinating problems that need to be addressed across disciplines. The paradigm shift from single-agent to multi-agent systems will be pervasive and will require efforts across different fields including machine learning, cognitive science, robotics, natural computing, and (evolutionary) game theory. In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers from these different fields to discuss the current state of the art, future avenues and visions for work regarding theory and practice of multi-agent learning, inference, and decision-making.

1. Call for Papers

Authors can submit a 2-6 pages paper (excluding references) that will be reviewed by the organization committee. The papers can present new work or give a summary of recent work of the author(s). All papers will be considered for the poster sessions. Outstanding long papers (4-6 pages) will also be considered for a 20 minutes oral presentation.

Topics considered for contribution include:

- Multi-agent reinforcement learning
- Deep multi-agent learning
- Theory of Mind
- Multi-agent communication
- POMDPs, Dec-POMDPS and partially observable stochastic games
- Multi-agent robotics, human-robot collaboration, swarm robotics
- Game theory, mechanism design, algorithms for computing Nash equilibria and other solution concepts
- Bioinspired approaches, swarm intelligence and collective intelligence
- Co-evolution, evolutionary dynamics and culture
- Ad-hoc teamwork
- Learning from demonstrations, apprenticeship learning, and inverse reinforcement learning


Submissions should be sent per email to malic.n...@gmail.com

Please use the standard NIPS style-file for the submissions. Your submission should be anonymous, so please do not add the author names to the PDF.

2. Format

The workshop will serve as a platform to bring researchers from the different relevant communities together and foster discussions about the next necessary developments for multi-agent systems. The workshop will consists of six invited talks, a few contributed talks and a poster session.

3. Confirmed Speakers

- Chris Amato
- Michael Bowling
- Josh Tenenbaum
- Manuela Veloso
- Shimon Whiteson
- Richard Watson

4. Program Committee

- Daan Bloembergen
- Sander Bohte
- Chrisantha Fernando
- Vicenç Gómez
- Bert Kappen
- Michael Littman
- Gerhard Neumann
- Ann Nowé
- Olivier Pietquin
- Matt Taylor
- Kagan Tumer
- Gerhard Weiss